Microsoft has introduced the overall launch of Visible Studio 2022 model 17.14, an replace of the corporate’s flagship built-in improvement surroundings (IDE) that provides help for agent mode and different AI-assisted improvement options from GitHub Copilot.
Launched Might 13, Visible Studio 2022 model 17.14 may be downloaded from visualstudio.microsoft.com. The 17.14 launch previews GitHub Copilot agent mode to “supercharge” the AI-assisted improvement expertise, Microsoft mentioned. With agent mode, builders chat with Visible Studio utilizing pure language to instruct it to finish multi-step, complicated coding duties autonomously. The agent understands the code base and might repair errors, recommend and execute terminal instructions, and analyze runtime errors till a activity is full, Microsoft mentioned. Agent mode is accessible in public preview for all customers of Visible Studio 17.14.
Visible Studio 17.14 additionally provides Subsequent Edit Strategies (NES), whereby GitHub Copilot predicts the following edit within the present file primarily based on earlier edits, and AI-powered doc remark technology for C++ and C# features. The discharge additionally provides help for Mannequin Context Protocol (MCP), additionally preview. An open-source protocol created by Anthropic, MCP supplies the GitHub Copilot agent with structured entry to information, instruments, and assets.
